‘Dwarfs and trolls get along like a house on fires’, said Nobby. ‘Ever been in a burning house, miss?’ (MA)
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‘I didn’t grow up despising mankind. I had to learn it.’ (LM)
… she made it clear that the only difference between Mort and a dead toad was the colour. (M)
Hate - Terry Pratchett quote'When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out'. (RS)
The traditional enmity between dwarfs and trolls has been explained away by one simple statement: one species is made of rock, the other is made of miners. But in truth the enmity is there because no one can remember when it wasn’t, and so it continues because everything is done in completely justifiable revenge for the revenge that was taken in response to the revenge for the vengeance that was taken earlier, and so on. Humans never do this sort of thing, much. (BOS)
'Poison goes where poison's welcome.' (ISWM)
'It's hard to hate people who are a long way away. You forget how dreadful they are. But you see a neighbour's warts every day'. (UA)
'Humans hate werewolves because they see the wolf in us, but wolves hate us because they see the human inside - and I don’t blame them!' (FE)
Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them neatly away so that they don’t upset people. Nature, in fact, abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. (P)
Gods didn’t mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief. (SG)
Several copies of the pamphlet seemed to have reached every home, even so. It was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. (MR)
... William wondered why he always disliked people who said ‘no offence meant’. Maybe it was because they found it easier to say ‘no offence meant’ than actually refrain from giving offence. (TT)
'What kind of creature defines itself by hatred?' (Th)
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. And because the theatre was fiction made flesh, she hated the theatre most of all. But that
was it – hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned. (Ma) 'You mean they hate water?' said Twoflower.
‘No, that wouldn’t work,’ said Rincewind. ‘Hate is an attracting force, just like love. They really loathe it, the very idea of it revolts them. (COM) Camels have a very democratic approach to the human race. They hate every member of it, without making any distinction for rank or creed. (P)
'He says that if the faculty get to know one another better, they’ll be a happier, more efficient team.’
‘But they do know one another. They’ve known one another for ages! That’s why they don’t like one another very much.' (TG) |
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